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In cygwin the CP make variable is defined as /bin/cp rather than
"$(PERL) -MExtUtils::Command -e cp" as in other environments. The
rakudo Configure.pl seems to ultimately set this variable based on
config/init/hints/cygwin.pm in the parrot build tree and that
hints/cygwin.pm file has a comment noting that ExtUtils::Command has a
bug with a ticket concerning the failure to set the executable bit on
cygwin.
The reason setting the make CP variable to /bin/cp breaks "make
install" for rakudo is that there are commands to copy some
documentation files, included below, and, since the $(DOCS) variable
indirectly refers to a "docs/announce" directory, the *nix /bin/cp
command tries to copy that directory and returns a 1 error code after
printing a warning. The ExtUtils::Command cp fails silently instead.
...
# the docs/* below refers to docs/announce which is a directory and
breaks install
DOCS = README CREDITS LICENSE docs/*
...
$(CP) $(DOCS) $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/rakudo
$(CP) $(DOCS)/announce
$(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/rakudo/announce
This bug also breaks "make install" for Rakudo Star.
Ron
